Archive for January, 2006
Facebook Photos
This Facebook statistic blows me away: “10278 photos have been uploaded at Colorado today”. That’s just one day! Is it just me or are photos a powerful connector? The ease of the internet means enhanced abilities to share pictures. I think there’s definitely something to that…
Google and Evil
I’m starting to hate this Google-China attack fest, lately. Do people forget Google is a company? Do people realize that China is huge? ‘Evil’ is such a relative term, just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s evil. In addition, why do we have double standards? MSN and Yahoo were first to comply and […]
Risk Aversion
Kathy Sierra has a nice post on risk aversion which I especially like because of her awesome ‘USAToday approach’ to explaining concepts (using pretty pictures). If you don’t feel like reading everything she has to say, you can at least loose yourself in a picture of a tree for a few minutes. That point aside, […]
Soft Skills
Dave points to a great article from Fortune on soft skills: The war for top executive talent. The consulting group I work for actually provides classroom based soft-skill training to large (Fortune 500) companies. Interesting quote: “Ask your company’s best leaders to name the most powerful learning experiences they’ve had.” They will hardly ever mention […]
Mahna Mahna
Here’s a classic from the Muppet Show, “Mahna Mahna“. There’s some fascinating background on this over at Wikipedia.
